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Got the light kit installed this afternoon. My daughter and I had a fun time with this set. The light kit really makes it pop.

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[–] TTH4P@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] letter_d@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't build a lot of Lego, but I have had a lot of fun with the botanicals and this set was brilliant

[–] letter_d@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah some of them are really great. My daughter and I visited the Japanese gardens in Portland this Summer and when I saw the set I had to get it for a fun reminder of our trip.

[–] Axxys@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does the light kit come with the set?

[–] letter_d@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It doesn't. I bought it from light my brick

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This looks great!

How was the install? I've always worried the light kits would be difficult to install.

[–] letter_d@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Mostly not too bad. It's pretty clever how they hide a bunch of the wiring under the tea house. You have to kind of braid a bunch of it and shove it under a little lego hide along with the connection board. That was tricky. I made my daughter do the braiding.

This is the second set I've done a light kit for (the first was the Daily Bugle set. Talk about jumping into the deep end...) so I kind of knew how the wiring worked with the bricks at this point. The instructions were pretty good and the wiring was pretty good as well. It didn't come with a power source and it wants a usb power source instead of a battery pack or something, but I had some old usb power blocks running around, so that was fine.